New term ahoy!

Joanna, feeling poorly and wafting around pathetically [aka Alexandre Cabanel, Ophelia (1883)]

Private collection. Image here: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandre_Cabanel,_Ophelia.JPG

We hope that you all had a good Easter!

I’m afraid that things have been rather quiet at Wrightington Towers for a couple of weeks - partly due to general end-of-term-itis after a particularly busy term, and partly due to my having been rather felled by a reaction to my first Covid jab. Apologies for not having responded as we usually would to communications.

We’re both firing on all cylinders now - Robert’s merrily finishing off his prep for the coming term’s courses and I’m catching up on the boring stuff (finances and admin), before getting back to the far lovelier task of responding to website comments and emails. We’ll be adding more to the site soon, but couldn’t wait any longer to say thank you for your patience over the last few weeks.

Moreover, many thanks to all of you for making last term such fun. We hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did!

More here anon…

Wrightington Towers, Friday 26 March (end of term), 11.30am

[aka Underwood & Underwood, Marathon Dancers Still Going, Illinois, Chicago (1930).

Image here: The Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012646313/]

Wrightington Towers, Friday 26 March (end of term), 11.33am

[aka A dancer collapses in Chicago (1931).

Ullstein bild via Getty Images, here via: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/aug/04/bop-till-you-drop-americas-dance-marathons-no-miracles-here-edinburgh-festival]